Could Mindful Meditation Make Treatment Programs Work Better for Offenders?

Can Treatment Make Some Sex Offenders Worse?

Geoengineering: could we or should we make it work?

Schemes to modify large-scale environment systems or control climate have been proposed for over 50 years to (i) increase temperatures in high latitudes, (ii) increase precipitation, (iii) decrease sea ice, (iv) create irrigation opportunities, or (v) offset potential global warming by injecting iron in the oceans or sea-salt aerosol in the marine boundary layer or spreading dust in the stratos...

Stroke Prevention Worldwide--What Could Make It Work?

The global burden of stroke is of continual major importance for global health. The present report addresses some of the core principles that could make stroke prevention work. The prevention of stroke shares many common features with other non-communicable diseases (NCDs); stroke prevention should therefore be part of the joint actions on NCD led by the WHO and member states. Stroke prevention...

[Chronic ischemic mitral regurgitation: more treatment could mean better treatment].

Chronic ischemic mitral regurgitation (CIMR) is a frequent complication after acute myocardial infarction (AMI), appearing in approximately 20% of cases, and is far more frequent in inferior AMI (38%) than in anterior AMI (10%). The standard treatment of severe CIMR is coronary surgery combined with mitral valve replacement or repair. Historically, this procedure is associated with a high hospi...

Mindful creativity: the influence of mindfulness meditation on creative thinking

Recently the interest in the neurocognitive and psychological effects of meditation, and in particular mindfulness-meditation (MM), has largely grown. From the eighties, research has focused on health benefits of MM and on the cognitive and emotional changes resulting from practice (Kabat-Zinn, 1994; Cahn and Polich, 2006). Several findings suggest that the “observe and accept” approach of MM m...